Patterson Cemetery District
Obits listing for 2007
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Patterson Irrigator, 07/04/07, p 5
Sister David de Marie Beausoleil
May 20, 1915 � July 1, 2007
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday for Sister David de Marie
Beausoleil, DHS, who died Sunday at age 92 at the Holy Spirit Health Care Center
in Putnam, Conn., where she had been a patient since 2004.
Born Alberta Beausoleil in Putnam, she was the daughter of David and Amanda
Trahan Beausoleil. She entered the Daughters of the Holy Spirit, a Catholic
religious order, in 1932 and made her religious profession on Aug. 8, 1935, at
the motherhouse in St. Brieuc, France. After Sister Beausoleil professed her
vows, she remained in France as a nurse�s aide at a hospital in Li�vin. When she
returned to the United States, she became involved in both education and
administration.
Sister Beausoleil received a bachelor�s degree in education from Teachers�
College in Providence, R.I., and a master�s degree from Boston College in
Boston, Mass.
From 1941 to 1956, she taught history at Putnam Catholic Academy in Putnam. She
was one of the original seven Daughters of the Holy Spirit who opened St.
Bernard High School in New London, Conn., in 1956, and she served as its first
vice principal.
Sister Beausoleil was among the sisters who opened the Daughters of the Holy
Spirit mission in Chile in 1962. There, she served as a teacher in Chanaral, as
novice mistress in Antofagasta and as vice provincial of the Latin American
province from 1966 to 1973. At the end of her term, she served in pastoral
ministry and did secretarial work in Santiago, Chile.
She returned to the United States in 1980 and became mission-procurator for the
American Province of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit. Sister Beausoleil was
assigned to San Francisco the following year and was appointed DHS district
coordinator for the District of California, a position she held for nine years.
Sister Beausoleil arrived in Patterson in 1984, where she became the vicar for
religious sisters in the Diocese of Stockton and was involved in Latino
ministry. She became a pastoral minister at Sacred Heart Catholic Church and
four years later became pastoral associate. She was also coordinator for
Daughters of the Holy Spirit in Patterson and Merced.
She retired to the Daughters of the Holy Spirit Provincial House in Putnam in
2001.
Sister Beausoleil is survived by several nieces and nephews, as well as
grandnieces and grandnephews.
Thursday�s Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 11 a.m. at the Provincial
House, 72 Church St., in Putnam followed by burial in St. Mary�s Cemetery, 218
Providence St., also in Putnam.
Memorial contributions in Sister Beausoleil�s name may be sent to the Daughters
of the Holy Spirit Retirement Fund, 72 Church St., Putnam, Conn., 06260.
Gilman Funeral Home, 104 Church St., in Putnam is handling arrangements.